Posted on 10/21/2005 11:49:38 AM PDT by advance_copy
Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has just launched his own brand-new Web site.
Could it be that he's getting ready to release some new legal documents? Like, maybe, some indictments? It's certainly not the action of an office about to fold up its tents and go home.
Fitzgerald spokesman Randall Samborn minimized the significance of the Web launch in an interview this morning.
"I would strongly caution, Dan, against reading anything into it substantive, one way or the other," he said. "It's really a long overdue effort to get something on the Internet to answer a lot of questions that we get . . . and to put up some of the documents that we have had ongoing and continued interest in having the public be able to access."
OK, OK. But will the Web site be used for future documents as well?
"The possibility exists," Samborn said.
Among the documents currently available on the site:
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Think about this.
IF they're were indictments (pretrial), why would the documents potentially (evidence) be posted on a website for the "public"....
Keeping it real.
This is actually a very smart idea no matter how this comes down. If there is one definitive source that anyone can go to, there is diminished opportunity for the media to cherry pick the pieces of the information they want to publish and ignore what does not support their agenda. Anyone with internet access will be able to fact check what the networks and newspapers publish.
Especially since he's not allowed to make a formal report.
Special Prosecutors 'R Us. gov
Since we are in the electronic age could that be called premature e-speculation?
Remember that Ken Starr had a website, and look where it got him.
Ken Starr convicted 14 friends and associates of the Clintons, including Web Hubbell, both McDougals, and the sitting governor of Arkansas.
The left would have convulsions of ecstasy if Fitzgerald produced half those results.
>IF they're were indictments (pretrial), why would the documents potentially (evidence) be posted on a website for the "public"....
Because a Bill of Indictment is a public document...
Fitzgerald's not going to address the White House spin. Which I expect to be fast and furious.
Too bad Bush screwed the conservatives over by appointing Miers.
If he expects "forgive-forget-and-lets-all-hold-hands-and-sing-Kumbaya" he's out to lunch.
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"I would strongly caution, Dan, against reading anything into it substantive, one way or the other," he said. "It's really a long overdue effort to get something on the Internet to answer a lot of questions that we get . . . and to put up some of the documents that we have had ongoing and continued interest in having the public be able to access."
Damn! How on earth did I miss that? Next thing you'll be telling me is that he indicted Hillary and the Pres himself.
Get real. Given that the Grand Jury's term expires next week, October 28, if Fitzgerald is planning on shutting down, why put up a website now?
Presidents are notoriously hard to bring down. Luckily for Fitzgerald, he's not investigating one.
Do you knnow something we don't in expecting that the White House will need fast and furious spinning?
Yeah, but it was one of the most popular porn sites on the net! :)
Unfortunately, this investigation won't turn out to be so juicy unless Fitzgerald pulls a Starr and goes off looking for something more interesting than low-level CIA employees and backwater ambassadors.
I may know things you don't know, but only because I've been following this thing closely since 2003.
How about you?
Exactly. I find this supporting his finding of no indictments and no crimes committed.
No prosecutor in his right mind is going to jeapardize his case by posting information about an indictment that was headed for criminal court.
I think this web site will be used to communicate to Americans factual information as opposed to the rumor mill that the left will start when Fitz announces no indictments.
He may also use it to defend himself, his staff, and others from the personal attacks he knows will be leveled at him when he announces no indictments.
Man is that ever needed.
See this:
James Moore: The Most Important Criminal Case in American History (stunning hyperbole!)
Groklaw is doing that with the documents in SCO v. IBM. Every item on the dockett was scanned from originals or downloaded from the courts, indexed and posted on the site. But journalists still get it wrong and indeed many FReepers won't believe it.
So, now this Federal GJ investigation has more leaks that it's supposed point of subject. This is fresh warm crapola, to say the least.
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